DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete DESIGN SOLUTION contributed article, which begins on Page 2. Until very recently, no common interface existed between handheld devices and PC peripherals.

In theory, a new version of USB designed for peripheral-to-peripheral connection has a ready-made market. In practice, however, that market is crowded with several entrenched connection methods that ...

USB Type-C has widely become the de facto primary means of wired connection for most of our electronic devices. It forms the ...

With wireless connectivity waiting in the wings, a supplement to the USB standard called USB on-the-go has begun to gather momentum as a way to connect mobile devices on a point-to-point basis, ...

USB OTG is a specification for devices like smartphones and tablets. A compatible phone can act as a “host” and lets you use it with other USB devices like flash drives, keyboards, mice, and more. A ...

NEC says they’re going to start incorporating USB On-The-Go into their 3G cellphones. The big deal about USB On-The-Go, or USB OTG, is that it allows USB 2.0 peripherals to connect directly to each ...

A new technology that allows handheld devices to share files directly, without the need for a PC, could be on store shelves by the end of the year. Several manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, ...

We keep everything on our phones these days. While most of us do back up to the cloud, whether it be iCloud, Google, One Drive, or another service, there are times you may want to offload files from ...